This page contains a thematically organized list of websites related to
Chernobyl.
General
Information
Chernobyl.info is the international communications platform on the
long-term consequences of the Chernobyl disaster.
It represents a global
communication platform for all those engaged in fostering the safety
and development of the region surrounding Chernobyl, with its three
million inhabitants in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.
Wikipedia's
page on Chernobyl is a publicly editable but generally
thorough overview of the Chernobyl disaster.
The
Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues' annotated Chernobyl
bibliography contains recommendations for futher
reading.
The
Battle of Chernobyl accompanies a television program produced
by The Discovery Channel, and contains a chronological overview of the
disaster.
Government
and International Organization Websites
The Chernobyl Center for Nuclear Safety Radioactive
Waste and Radioecology. Here one can find such things as the
official
assessment of radioactive contamination and radiation doses of flora
and fauna of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Official Ukrainian Chernobyl power plant website. Here one
can
find everything from an English translation of the Law “On
Status and
Social Protection of Population Suffered from Chernobyl
Catastrophe,”
to photos from different years, to information on current radiation
levels.
Official site of Exclusion Zone and unconditional
(obligatory)
resettlement Administration. (in Ukrainian)
The United Nations Chernobyl site containing information
relating
to the 20th anniversary, conferences and reports that highlight the
relationship between the event and the organization.
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s Chernobyl website offers many multimedia features, a good timeline, reports, stories and
information and links regarding the 20th anniversary, as well as
downloadable articles and publications.
Chernobyl: Assessment of Radiological and Health Impacts features downloadable reports from the Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development's Nuclear Energy Agency.
The
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission's site on Chernobyl offers a
short fact sheet about the disaster.
Index
on Censorship February 2006 special issue on “The
Hidden Histories of Chernobyl,” includes articles by Alla
Yaroshinskaya, Svetlana Alexievich, and others
Nature. April 20, 2006, special issue on “Chernobyl, 20 Years On”
Article by Chernobyl expert David Marples on “The Chernobyl Disaster: Its Effects on Belarus and Ukraine.”
Chernobyl in Photos and Art
Photos of
the “lost city” of Chernobyl.
Extensive
photo galleries of Pripyat, Chernobyl, and life before,
during and after the accident.
The
website of photographer Paul Fusco, author of “Chernobyl
Legacy,” a photo essay of lives affected by Chernobyl.
An
online exhibit of artwork drawn by affected children entitled
“Chernobyl-It is Our Pain.”
A
compelling and recent National Geographic Chernobyl slideshow.
Kidd of Speed (Elena
Vladimirovna Filatova)’s Chernobyl pages (she is
the
infamous Chernobyl motorcyclist). Photos and videos can be found here.
Also see www.elenafilatova.com for Ms. Filatova’s Chernobyl journals.
Chernobyl
and Literature
Lyubov
Sirota’s ‘Chernobyl
poems.’ Sirota was a resident of Pripyat when the
accident
occurred.
In the days that followed, she and her son grew gravely ill from heavy
doses of radioactive contamination. To express her grief and rage, she
turned to writing poems, and collected them in a small book entitled
Burden.
Poem “Chernobyl” by Belarussian poet Volha Ipatava (in
Belarussian and English translation)
Sergii
Mirnyi’s website. Mirnyi was a commander of
radiation
reconnaissance platoon in Chernobyl in 1986. He is now a writer and
an internationally known expert on the Chernobyl
Disaster and mitigation of ecological-social disasters.
Interview with writer, scientist, and Chernobyl liquidator Sergii Mirnyi on
Bellona.org.
Alexander
Borisovich Kramer’s tale
“Cherno (Bil),” - a play on words in
Russian that
insinuates
that something “was black.” It is a story that
takes place
in 1988 about a worker in the zone. It was originally published
underground in a samizdat journal. (In Russian)
Chernobyl poems published in The Ukrainian
Quarterly, Spring 1996, by Oksana Pakhliovska, Sofia Maidanska, and
Oksana Zabuzhko
Chernobyl in Music
and Film
Children
of Chernobyl (DJ Simpson a.k.a. Denys): Information and song
downloads from a Ukrainian Chernobyl inspired musical group.
Download a two
minute TV segment from the Soviet news program Vremya about work
in the zone. December, 1987.
Interview in Central Europe Review with filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter about his documentary film, “Pripyat.”
Download a 45
minute documentary from RENTV called Chernobyl: 20 Years After Life.
Download a 56
minute USA/Ukraine/Spain joint documentary in DVD quality
called Radiophobia.
Chernobyl
Humanitarian Organizations
Friends of
Chernobyl’s
Children, a
UK based group that devotes its energies to raising funds to bring
children, who are at risk, from Belarussia to the United Kingdom for a
month every year.
The Chernobyl Children's Project International hopes to
effect real
change in the Chernobyl-affected areas harnessing the unique spirit of
volunteerism that permeates every level of the organization. They wish
to develop, facilitate and affect long-term sustainable community-based
solutions, providing effective principled humanitarian assistance while
advocating for the rights of the victims and survivors of the Chernobyl
Nuclear Disaster.
The United States Charitable Fund is a
non-profit organization whose purpose is to provide relief to children
affected by the Chernobyl Nuclear explosion of 1986 by bringing them to
America each summer.
Chabad's Children of Chernobyl (CCOC) is an organization that
evacuates
children affected by Chernobyl to Israel for medical treatment.
The Chernobyl Children
Project USA, Inc. is a non-profit organization
that provides respite and relief to the children affected by the
Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986. Established in 1995, the Project is
directed and staffed by volunteers from the greater Boston area who
seek to help the people of the Chernobyl area by means of aid, medical
assistance, education, and caring.
Children of Chornobyl Canadian Fund (CCCF) is a registered
charitable
organization established in 1989 to provide humanitarian aid to victims
of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. CCCF, through its various
projects, distributes medication, medical and technical equipment,
supplies and food to clinics, treatment centers, hospitals and
orphanages and sponsors a variety of projects to improve health care
and the general well-being of disadvantaged and ill children in
Ukraine.
Childern of Chornobyl Relief and Development Fund. This
organization’s mission is to protect and save the lives of
Ukrainian children, all of whom confront the legacy of the Chernobyl
catastrophe and other environmental disasters. Its goal is to provide
state-of-the-art medical aid to Ukrainian children with cancer, genetic
birth defects, heart disease, and immune deficiencies.
Children of Chernobyl Foundation reaches out to children
living in
Belarus by offering summer visitor programs to children whose immune
systems may still be affected by aftereffects of the Chernobyl nuclear
power plant explosion.
Other
Information
Herman
Damveld’s account of the accident:
Chernobyl: Five Years of Disaster, a very thorough blow by
blow account
of the before, during and after of Chernobyl.
The Chernobyl
Museum in Kyiv, including photos and
news.
The portal for the city of Slavutich (in Russian), the town
where many former
inhabitants of the zone were relocated and where many current Chernobyl
employees live. The “forum” provides
great
insight into the lives of the relocated.
A complete
Ukrainian language translation of Mary
Mycio’s ‘Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of
Chernobyl.”
Effects of the Chernobyl Disaster on Sámi Life by Melanie
Blackwell. An analysis of the
effects of
Chernobyl on Sami, an indigenous group that lives in the Scandinavian
and Russian far north.
Information about Chernobyl tours offered by a Ukrainian
company.